Instructors

The Founder and General Manager of Westside Tutoring & Testing Services is Professor John P.J. Zajaros, Sr., known to family and friends as “Jack” and to his students as “Professor Z”.

Initially, Jack began to work with children part-time because his son, Jack Jr., was diagnosed with ADHD. Jack Sr.’s commitment grew from a part-time avocation, getting involved whenever and wherever he could, into a full-time business committed primarily to children with learning difficulties.

Professor Z has never regretted his decision to focus his efforts on gifted students and students struggling to come to grips with the effects of Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Asperger’s Syndrome, and other learning difficulties. In fact, he would argue that almost every student he has had the pleasure to tutor, coach, and mentor, was gifted in one way or another.

Now, more than 3 decades later, Professor Z’s commitment to the young and not-so-young is as strong as ever. He has tutored students age five to sixty-five, the vast majority of whom are now teachers, coaches, professors, professionals in a myriad of fields, and successful members of their community.

There is much more to the story and literally hundreds of success stories, some of which can be found here.

In the middle of of the school year, my daughter lost her bearings in high school chemistry as the pace picked up and the assignments became more complex. My daughter couldn’t relate to the teacher’s learning style and presentation. The school’s student tutor for chemistry was a classmate of my daug…

Our son had always done well at school in terms of top grades without any effort whatsoever. However as he moved from middle to high school, we started to see occasional B’s, few more ‘missing’ homeworks, grades that started to vacillate between As and Bs. As part of a really large public scho…

Our son has always struggled in school. After trying our school district’s classroom aides and other suggested tutoring resources, my husband and I decided that we needed to get a tutor that could help our son in the foundation that he never developed throughout school. We had to correct the cause,…